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Article: At the Movies: 'Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights'
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- AP Worldstream
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- November 29, 2002
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After wowing critics _ and alienating some of his fans _ with the
whimsical, ambitious "Punch-Drunk Love," Adam Sandler must feel that
the world needs him to return to his grubby roots.
So arrives the execrable "Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights," a humor-
free animated musical that's as close to Sandler's own juvenile sensibility
as Paul Thomas Anderson's delightful film was removed from it.
The Sandler formula, carried over from the live-action star vehicles
which, like this one, he co-wrote, goes something like this: Devise
a situation in which Sandler can be as childish and hostile as possible,
cram in as many puerile gags as ...